Complexity and approximation for precedence constrained scheduling problems with large communication delays

  • Authors:
  • Rodolphe Giroudeau;Jean-Claude Konig;Farida Kamila Moulai;Jérôme Palaysi

  • Affiliations:
  • LIRMM, Université de Montpellier II, UMR 5506 CNRS, 161 rue Ada, 34392 Montpellier Cedex 5, France;LIRMM, Université de Montpellier II, UMR 5506 CNRS, 161 rue Ada, 34392 Montpellier Cedex 5, France;LIRMM, Université de Montpellier II, UMR 5506 CNRS, 161 rue Ada, 34392 Montpellier Cedex 5, France;LIRMM, Université de Montpellier II, UMR 5506 CNRS, 161 rue Ada, 34392 Montpellier Cedex 5, France

  • Venue:
  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

We investigate the problem of minimizing the makespan (resp. the sum of completion time) for the multiprocessor scheduling problem. We show that there is no hope of finding a @r-approximation with @r=2.